My Biggest DisappointmentOften the things we look forward to the most turn out to be a huge let down. As Freddy Woo puts it, "High heels in bed? No fun at all. Porn has a lot to answer for."
Well, Freddy, you are supposed to get someone else to wear them.
What's disappointed you lot?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:15)
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21st. Century ApolloI couldn't agree more. The excuse that NASA came out with was "well, we saved money on R&D by re-using all the research done on Apollo".
Doesn't it look like it!
If I was a 'merkin I'd be disgusted that the US manned space program has eaten billions of dollars to do nothing more than a 40-year-long, liquid fuelled version of a small dog chasing it's tail.
Alternatively, if I was the Chinese government I'd turn most of my nukes over to the space program and get a *decent* ship built; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29 ).
By the time NASA have finished having meetings on how an American is actually going to get to Mars, China will have put up clothing factories there. I don't think China would be too worried about the environmental cost of a nuclear takeoff either, which would scare me shitless.
Random memory moment - wasn't there an Arthur C. Clarke story (either Rama or 2001 trilogies) where China had put up into orbit a space station that actually turned out to be a fast interplanetary ship?
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